Location: Mexico City Work Mode: Hybrid (1-2 days at the office) | Monday to Friday | 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Office Address: Av. Insurgentes Sur 1458, Actipan, Benito Juárez, 03230 Ciudad de México, CDMX
Project Duration: 6 months with possible extension to 12 months
Contract Type: Full-time
Target Start Date: Immediate (1st september)
Role: API Designer
City: Mexico City | Country: Mexico

Role Overview:
Requirements analysis and understanding with business and IT areas: Understanding use cases, dependencies, NFRs, and success criteria. Mapping projects within the organization's ecosystem: Understanding domains, source/target systems, involved teams, and future API usage. Designing low-level design focused on components/APIs: Required under an API-First approach and using API-Led as the integration methodology. Defining design patterns: Understanding key concepts such as versioning, pagination, error modeling, idempotence, limits, etc. Ensuring API security mechanisms: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, etc., and authorization guidelines.

Must-Have Skills:
API Design: REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and Swagger/RAML contracts (hands-on). API First, API Led, and basic DDD. REST API design standards.
Security: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, API keys,



mTLS, scopes.
Modeling/Diagrams: UML (Context, components, and sequences). Draw.io and/or Visio.
API Governance: Lifecycle, validation, contract review, API catalogs.
API Management Platforms: Proxy concepts, policies, environments.
Tools: Draw.io, Confluence, Office 365

Desirable Knowledge:
GraphQL and Async APIs.
Observational APIs (logging, metrics, etc.).
Apigee as an API Management tool.
Experience with API portals/catalogs and marketplaces.

Experience
5-8 years in API design and integrations
2+ years working with API Management platforms.

Soft Skills:
Consultative profile: Ability to facilitate business and IT collaboration
Technical Thinking: Understands the big picture and can get down to technical detail when required.
Clear communication: Turn requirements into artifacts and next steps.
Product orientation: Pragmatic, avoids over-engineering, understands the business at a high level.
Collaboration: Experience working with multidisciplinary teams
Analytical skills (conceptual power)
Working under pressure and stress management

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